Movies of James Reserve and CENS systems
Given the complexity of our dynamic kml layers, especially to first time users, and given a need for smooth-running demonstrations for presentation-use, I have created a number of screen capture movies.
Unfortunately, these movies were designed to be narrated live by a person. Whereas there are little "text" slides between movie segments, they won't be able to properly explain what you are about to see. In order to make sense of it all, I would be happy to answer any questions you have, and give the accompanying talk.
* Quicktime 7 or H.264 compatible media player (such as VideoLAN) required. I can provide higher quality versions on CD if desired (our webserver at is on a T1 line, and the larger movies take a long time to download.)
James Reserve Systems: as presented at SCGIS 2006 - (4min / 1024x768 / H.264)
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medium quality (~35MB / 4min / 1024x768 / H.264)
Center for Embedded Network Sensing Systems: (4min / 800x600 / H.264)
- medium quality (~30MB / 4min / 800x600 / H.264)
*Some of the features in the second movie are not directly related to the James Reserve, as they pertain to other CENS projects. These include:
- The Bangladesh Ground Water Arsenic Contamination Project - seeking to understand the causes of toxic arsenic level in public water wells in Bangladesh.
- The Meso-American Subduction Experiment (MASE) - a wired and wireless network of seismometers spanning the width of Mexico; used to investigate seismic waves propagation over large geographic scales.
- The Merced / San Joaquin River Confluence Contamination Project - seeking to quantify the entry of excess agricultural nutrients and resultant microbial blooms in the river's junction.
Shortcomings of GE's Movie Maker Module:
Because Google Earth Pro's built-in Movie Maker add-in does not capture the HTML content of Placemarker balloons, I found it unsuitable for my demo movies. Thus, I found open-source alternatives to meet my needs. The focus on free and open-source utilizes is not only beneficial for financially constrained educational programs such as our own, but also for the public-interest organizations Google Earth Outreach wishes to serve. Here is a short list of the tools and software I used to create these movies:
- Hmelyoff Lab's VH Screen Capture Driver - a DirectShow video card emulator for screen capture.
- VideoLan - VLC media player: DirectShow capture, encoding/transcoding.
- VirtualDub - linear video editing, splicing and cleanup.
- AviSynth - AVI editor for video post-production and frameserving.
- MeGUI - H.264 video encoding for mpe4, avi.
- QuickTime Pro - (not quite free, but inexpensive) H.264 video encoding for the quicktime format.






